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Disease Quotes
Illness, metaphor, and the will to endure.
This page pairs quotes about literal illness with quotes that use disease as a political metaphor - one speaker names debt as the single most corrosive force in a nation's history, another describes the private grief of a cancer diagnosis. Related reading includes Health.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.
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Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
- Incurable
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In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.
- Battle
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I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
- Me
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At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.
- Nature
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Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
- Donated
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The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation with individual variation in health and disease and help to deliver on the long-term promise of the Human Genome Project.
- Dangerous Place
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I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
- Heart
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is an emotional disease.
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